May 31, 2025
The new fake-news 'narrative': Elon Musk 'killed 300,000 people'
By Monica Showalter
As President Trump bids Elon Musk a fond farewell amid hopes his DOGE work to cut waste and fraud in government endures, leftists have cooked up a new "narrative" about him, now that their vandalism campaign on Tesla has lost its novelty.
They're out claiming that Musk has, sniff, sniff, killed 300,000 children.
According to a column by New York Times lefty columnist Michelle Goldberg:
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred the United States Agency for International Development. Though a rump operation is operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.Eighty percent is a good number, given that Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that 88% of USAID went to people other than the intended recipients who were apparently just there as window dressing for NGOs living the high life and funneling cash back to Democrats. Eighty percent aid cuts left 12% for the indigent and 8% for the NGOs to play around with. Rubio adamantly said that nobody died as a result of the cuts, and as the stats indicate, the latter were still making bank.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/the_new_fake_news_narrative_elon_musk_killed_300_000_people.html
